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  Sea Trial - Sailing After My Father

  Brian Harvey

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  Shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction
  		 
  An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his father
  		 
  After a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death. John Harvey was a neurosurgeon, violinist, and photographer who answered his door a decade into retirement to find a sheriff with a summons. It was a malpractice suit, and it did not go well. Dr. Harvey never got over it. The box contained every nurse’s record, doctor’s report, trial transcript, and expert testimony related to the case. Only Brian’s father had read it all — until now.
  		 
  In this beautifully written memoir, Brian Harvey shares how after two months of voyaging with his father’s ghost, he finally finds out what happened in the O.R. that crucial night and why Dr. Harvey felt compelled to fight the excruciating accusations.

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  Great Controversy

  Ellen G. White

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  This great work covers the history of the Christian dispensation, from the fall of Jerusalem, through the Dark Ages and Reformation, to the yet-future final triumph of Jesus over Satan.  - Summary by Jael Baldwin

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  Winter

  Christopher Nicholson

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  “[This] beautifully restrained novel, a meditation on aging, marriage and loss, fictionalizes a well-known period in Thomas Hardy’s life” (The New York Times). 
   
  A November morning in the 1920s finds an elderly man walking the grounds of his Dorchester home, pondering his past and future with deep despondence. That man is the revered novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and this is a fictionalized account of his final years from the celebrated author of The Elephant Keeper. 
   
  The novel focuses on true events surrounding the London theater dramatization of Hardy’s acclaimed novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, including Hardy’s hand-picked casting of the young, alluring Gertrude Bugler to play Tess. As plans for the play solidify, Hardy’s interest in Gertie becomes a voyeuristic infatuation, causing him to write some of the best poems of his career. However, when Hardy’s reclusive, neglected wife, Florence, catches wind of Hardy’s desire for Gertie to take the London stage, a tangled web of jealousy and missed opportunity ensnares all three characters—with devastating results. 
   
  Told from the perspectives of Hardy, Gertie, and Florence, Winter is “a meditation on love, regret, and an elusive yearning for happiness” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). 
   
  “A book for grown-ups, one that finds the acme of human happiness in a young mother looking out at a starry winter’s night, while she holds her baby in her arms.” —The Washington Post 
   
  “Winter is quietly intelligent and compassionate, but what stands out most is that it is gorgeously, gorgeously written in prose so elegantly crafted that it becomes, paradoxically, almost invisible. It never shouts, never startles, just moves lithely along with an almost miraculous sense of rightness.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune

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  Saviour Soul Timothy Leary: An...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  As a close friend of Geoffrey Giuliano the amazing life of LSD advocate Dr. Timothy Leary is examined through the microscope of his great, abiding achievements as a philosopher, researcher, psychologist, and shaman. From his controversial, early days at Harvard University, to the heady heights of his time as a counter-culture hero and international fugitive, here is Timothy Leary, in his own words and of those who knew him best. Perfect for all library, university, and private collections. A one-of-a-kind Icon audio adventure.  Geoffrey Giuliano will donate all of his proceeds from this work to the Vrndavan Widows & Children's Fund of India via Sri Radhe International Inc., a New York State charity.Music by AudioNautix.

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  Patrick Kavanagh A Biography -...

  Antoinette Quinn

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  Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of W.B. Yeats and the rise of Seamus Heaney, tells the triumphant story of his journey from homespun balladry through early journal and poetry publications to his eventual coronation as one of the most influential figures in Irish poetry.
  
  Kavanagh (1904–1967) was born in County Monaghan, the son of a cobbler-cum-small farmer. He left school at thirteen to work the land but continued to educate himself, reading and writing poetry in his spare time. In 1929 he began contributing verses to the Irish Statesman and was soon publishing in Irish and English journals. His first collection, Ploughman and Other Poems, appeared in 1936 and was followed by an autobiography, The Green Fool, in 1938.
  
  In 1939 he moved to Dublin where he spent the rest of his life as a freelance writer and as part of the social and literary scene, keeping company with a gifted generation of writers, among them Flann O'Brien and Brendan Behan. He gained recognition as an important literary voice with his long poem 'The Great Hunger' in 1942. Further collections and the novel Tarry Flynn appeared in the following decades to growing critical acclaim.
  
  Published to widespread praise, Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography traces Kavanagh's publishing history as well as revealing what he was writing in the long interval between his books. This engaging, well-researched account of his daily professional life as a writer, his revisions and redraftings, his negotiations with publishers and editors, dispels the view that he was an untutored, gormless genius visited by an occasional flash of inspiration.
  
  Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography is the definitive account of Patrick Kavanagh's life and work and should be the standard for years to come.
  Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography: Table of Contents
  Introduction
  
  - No Genealogic Rosary (1850–1910)
  - Childhood (1904–1918)
  - Serving his Time (1918–1927)
  - Dabbling in Verse (1916–1930)
  - Farmer-Poet (1929–1936)
  - Towards The Green Fool (1936–1937)
  - The Green Fool and its Aftermath (1937–1939)
  - I Had a Future (1939–1941)
  - Bell-lettres (1940–1942)
  - The Great Hunger (1941–1942)
  - Pilgrim Poet (1940–1942)
  - Marriage and Money? (1942–1944)
  - The Enchanted Way (1944–1947)
  - Film Critic (1946–1949)
  - Tarry Flynn (1947–1949)
  - From Ballyrush to Baggot Street (1948–1951)
  - King of the Kids (1949–1951)
  - Bluster and Beggary (1952–1953)
  - Trial and Error (1954)
  - The Cut Worm (1954–1955)
  - The American Dream (1955–1957)
  - Noo Pomes (1957–1958)
  - Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1959–1960)
  - Roots of Love (1960–1964)
  - Sixty-Year-Old Public Man (1964–1965)
  - Four Funerals and a Wedding (1965–1967)
  - 'So long'

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  Trailer Park Parable - A Memoir...

  Tyler Zed

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  "Attempted murder victim told the Brainerd Dispatch she believes her sixteen-year-old son saved her."This is the news article detailing the event that would drastically change Tyler Zed's life and that of his family forever.Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Tyler and his two brothers filled their days with chaotic fun, from playing hockey to building forts to making their own home movies. The household was also full of addiction and abuse that ultimately led to their father attempting to murder their mother on Christmas Eve 2007.Trailer Park Parable follows Tyler and his family before Christmas Eve 2007, the events leading to that night, and the years afterward. It trails the boys as they deal with varying degrees of PTSD and their own battles with addiction, before they eventually turned their creative coping mechanisms, like their YouTube channels, into million-subscriber successes.From living in a trailer park to running a multi-million-dollar business, Trailer Park Parable highlights a true, American-dream story, countering a popular narrative that tells us you may as well not even try, the system is rigged against you.

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